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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. GridGain vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSVector DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gridgain.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationGridGain Systems, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release20122013200720192021
Current release29.0.1, April 202415585GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Collection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsKey-based authentication

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